7 habits to create your success

Simon Wilby

That Create Success in ANYONE over time

Can Habits Change Your Success? In a word. YES! They surely can.

Habit 1 Be proactive and avoid being re-active, in the words of Aristotle: We are what we repeatedly do, excellence therefore is not and act, but a habit!

Habit 2 Begin with the end in mind, what would you like your peers to say about what kind of person you were and bear this in mind in your life.

Habit 3 Put Your First Things FIRST ! "Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least." Goeth This habit is the natural emergence of Habits 1 and 2 in action combined.

Habit 4 Think About How to Create Win / WIN Situations in Your Business Win/Win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions.

Habit 5 Seek First To Understand, Then To be Understood Try daily to use empathetic communication most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Habit 6 Synergize Using Principles of Creative Cooperation and remember that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Become a trailblazer, a pathfinder. Bring people together in unity.

Habit 7 Sharpen The Saw in all areas of life preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have-- YOU! It is paramount to constantly be renewing the 4 dimensions of your nature--physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional.

Many years ago, a ten year old boy was working in a factory in Naples. He longed to become a singer, but his music teacher discouraged him saying you haven't any voice at all “you cannot sing he asserted to the boy and your voice “was like a frogs croak in a can” his teacher exclaimed! Ouch!

But his mother, a poor peasant woman, put her loving arms around the boy and praised him saying to him that she knew he could sing, she could already see an improvement within his voice. She then over the course of time went barefoot buying no shoes in order to save money to pay for his music lessons.

Do you know what happened? That peasant mothers praise and encouragement changed that boys life. His name was the great Enrico Caruso, and he grew to become the greatest and most famous Opera Singer of his age.

12. Work, Finish, Let Go, Work Harder Work hard, do great work, and let it go. Your customers will tell you what needs to be improved, and that means you'll get to make improvements that actually matter. You can't accomplish anything until you let go. Do your best, let go - and then trust that you'll work hard to overcome any shortcomings.

13. Find your role model of success Pick someone who has accomplished what you would like to accomplish and follow that path. Confident people are able to recognize excellence in others, because it does take self-confidence to admit someone else is smarter, better, faster, etc. than we are. Don't feel the need to reinvent perfectly good wheels.

Don't expect to be perfect, but better Successful people don't expect to be perfect, but they do think they can always be better. Think about your day. Think about what went well. Then think about what didn't go as well as it could have. Take responsibility. And promise yourself that tomorrow, you will do a lot better.